encoding.com

Cloud encoding startup Encoding.com has gotten a bit of validation from one of the big players in the more traditional video processing world. That’s because Harmonic has made a strategic investment in Encoding.com, which could lead to closer integration between the companies as more video processing moves to the cloud. Read More

Encoding.com is trying to add a few features that will set it apart from the competition. One of these features is dynamic text overlays, which was showed off as part of a Google Hangout campaign late last year. For the Google campaign, the dynamic text overlay was part of a custom workflow that Encoding.com worked on to enable the custom message. Read More

Cloud-based encoding vendor Encoding.com is announcing today that it’s won the business of Discovery Networks to manage video encoding for a number of the media company’s cable networks and online channels. The move comes as Discovery has recently made some aggressive moves with video content online. Read More

With the launch of UltraViolet and the introduction of a number of new streaming video services, Hollywood studios and TV networks are increasingly looking to make their content available over the Internet. But up until now, most long-form content providers needed to either invest heavily in their own expensive encoding equipment, or farm out digitization and encoding of their films to… Read More

Video encoding service provider Encoding.com this morning announced that it is opening the beta version of its Vid.ly video URL service to the public.
In a world littered with an enormous variety of smartphones, tablet computers and browsers, it’s not easy for publishers to put up a video online that can be watched by anyone, anywhere. With vid.ly, Encoding.com aims to alleviate that… Read More

Video formats on the Web are a mess right now. Apple supports H.264, but not Flash. Google recently declared that its Chrome browser will soon stop supporting H.264 in favor of its own WebM. To make a video play on an iPhone or iPad requires support for different formats than for an Android phone, and other phones require yet other formats. Read More

As tablets and phones with touch screens proliferate, more and more people are watching videos on mobile devices. But any website with video must decide which devices to support and encode their video to play on different phones and tablets. According to Encoding.com, which encodes about a million videos a month for everyone from MTV to PBS, nearly 78 percent of its customers encode their… Read More

Earlier this week, Steve Jobs kicked the debate about the need for Flash into high gear, especially for Web video. As he explained, Apple products like the iPhone and iPad don’t support Flash because although 75 percent of video on the Web is in Flash ” almost all this video is also available in a more modern format, H.264, and viewable on iPhones, iPods and iPads.” The… Read More

With the apparent lack of Flash on the iPad, video hosting platforms like Brightcove, Ooyala and Kyte are throwing their support for HTML5 playback on the device. Encoding.com, , a SaaS video encoding platform, is also announcing its support for HTTP streaming, to enable streaming of its video on iPhone and iPad devices. Read More

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Encoding.com, a startup that provides online video encoding services, has raised $1.25 million in Series A funding. The funding was led by Metamorphic Ventures and included angel investors Patrick Condon, Fred Hamilton, Zelkova Ventures, Dave Morgan, and Allen Morgan. The funds will be used to further sales, marketing, and partnership programs.
Launched in September 2008, Encoding.com… Read More

Amazon Web Services has just named the seven finalists for this year’s $100,000 Startup Challenge. The prize will go to the most innovative startup built on Amazon’s cloud-computing infrastructure. The winner will get $50,000 in cash, $50,000 in AWS credits, and maybe even an investment from Amazon. The finalists are: Read More